Reflection Paper

“Beauty surrounds us but we need to be walking in a garden to know it.” A firm believer in this famous quote by the fascinating Persian poet Molavi, upon retrospective contemplation I now realize that throughout my brief existence there has been always an innate motive inside me encouraging me to grasp this beauty. For the most part, I have been able to experience this blessing of life through the window of learning. In fact, the first vivid memory I recall is my three years old birthday when tens of guests and relatives attended. What made that anniversary memorable for me was that in the prelude to it, I had learned 100 English words, which took a great deal of practice for a non-native child of my age, and uttered them along with their meanings in Persian in front of that crowd. The following applause and laudation illustrated to me, for the first time ever, the tremendous power of knowledge and laid the foundation of my subsequent interest in acquiring it.

By the time I was a high school student I had already distinguished myself at school in terms of scores and coursework. Nonetheless, upon participating in a fair in a local sports club I realized that I had found a dearly missed part of my interests. Indeed, in the martial art of Judo, I was able to observe first-hand practical applications of Newton laws of motion or the conservation of angular momentum- concepts I had just become familiar with in my physics courses at school. The auspicious combination of a